Data classes are containers for your data—not behavior. The delineation is right there in the name. Yet, I see state-mutating methods getting crammed into data classes and polluting their semantics all the time. While this text will primarily talk about data classes in Python, the message remains valid for any language that supports data classes and allows you to add state-mutating methods to them, e.g., Kotlin, Swift, etc. By state-mutating method, I mean methods that change attribute values during runtime.

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